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Be grateful that "cool" is still in common use. One fine day, we may wake up and find people think of it the way we think of terms like "the bees knees," "keen," or "swell."
I... I still use "the bee's knees."
Use it with pride, my friend, for you, yourself, are the bee's knees.
Wow! Aw! Thanks!
There's still kindness in this world.
But those are so specifically old that they're used ironically or as a joke. And sometimes that happens enough that they get unironically re-injected into local slang.
This happened around here with "cool beans" lol.
I think you'd be looking more for 80s ninja-turtles style slang like "radical", "gnarly", etc. Or overuse of stale slang like "yeet"
Amusingly even "radical" can still be relevant as an adjective to describe an 80s retro vibe now. Slang and the relative cringe levels of it are pretty bizarre.
I would also submit "BITCHIN'" as one of those that can be taken out of long-term storage, for special occasions.
"Cool" is from before the time of probably any of us on here-- the 1930s! It's possible its usage might have slightly shifted over time (?) but that one just doesn't go away.
Meanwhile expressions like "radical," "bad," "on fleek" (ugh) didn't last long.